[UPDATE] Someone on the Southeast Side Has Until the End of Day to Lotto

By Chuck Sudo in News on Mar 24, 2011 3:00PM

Consider this a public service message. A year ago today, someone on the Southeast side bought a lottery ticket at a 7-Eleven at 107th and Ewing that wound up being worth $9 million. Whoever bought that ticket has never claimed the prize.

If that person is still out there and has the ticket in question, he or she has until the end of the day to claim the prize or else that person will be sentenced to buy lottery tickets for the rest of his or her natural life with the knowledge that you were thisclose to having the money to leave the Southeast side of the city That is all. Start digging through your car seats, trash, old files and couches for that ticket.

UPDATE: That was fast. Irving Przyborski found his winning ticket — numbers 5-20-31-34-50-51 — in his files when he started to do his taxes last month. Przyborski contacted his attorney, who contacted the Illinois Lottery last week. Lottery spokesman Tracy Owens said that, had Przyborski not claimed the prize, the $9 million would have been the largest unclaimed ticket they've ever had.